Civil Unrest

Police on Friday arrested some of the student leaders of the territory’s pro-democracy movement, only to set them free within hours without requiring bail in an exercise some critics said smacked of harassment.

The “arrests by appointment” began earlier in the week, with the Hong Kong police’s organized crime and triad bureau summoning student leaders and certain city legislators in the so-called pan-democratic camp. All of them helped lead the Occupy Central movement last fall, a civil disobedience movement calling for free and fair elections for the highest office in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.

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